- THE
BLACK CONFEDERATE OR SOLDIER - On the Lighter Note
- "FULFILL THE DREAM -
BE YOUR BROTHER'S KEEPER" - (Posted 1/3/01) - Welcome to the website
of Jacqueline Smith who has protested tirelessly for over twelve years to
keep the dream alive.
- LIEUTENANT
RAMON F. NOCHES - . . . In 1943 he was accepted into the flying
training program at Tuskegee graduating with the pilot class of 1944D. On
June 6, 1945, at 12:25 AM, while on a B-25 training flight from Godman
field, his plane crashed on takeoff from Gunter Field Alabama.
- HAITIAN FLIER
USED TUSKEGEE TRAINING TO BATTLE DICTATORS - When Raymond Cassagnol
took a job as an airplane mechanic in his native Haiti in 1942, almost the
last thing he expected to be doing a year later was flying planes with the
United States' legendary Tuskegee Airmen.
- THE ESTELUSTI FOUNDATION
- Preserving Oklahoma Freedmen History and Genealogy
- ED SEBESTA'S
TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY - I imagine our republic as a temple of democracy.
Inside there is an ongoing mud wrestling match, which is the political
process of a republic. Here we argue and debate. Here is where "Reason
wrestles with Error."
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BLACK SEMINOLES IN TEXAS AND MEXICO - The University of Texas
Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) at San Antonio, a multicultural
institution focused on the history and culture of Texas, has initiated a
program to document the history of the black Seminoles and is committed to
assisting them in efforts to preserve their cultural traditions.
- SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS - The S&DUSCT's primary mission is to
honor the historical legacy of those who served in the United States
Colored Troops(USCT) and to educate the public to the true role played by
free blacks and slaves in the American Civil War of 1860-1865.
- THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S
PARTY - A Historic, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to
equality for women
- A LACK OF
EVIDENCE - Blacks did not fight for the South, despite what
Confederate apologists argue (Newspaper Column)
-
THROUGH THE LENS OF TIME - Images of African Americans from the Cook
Collection
- BLACK
FARMERS GET SCREWED - By Dr. Anne T. Sulton, Esq., Jackson Advocate
Special Reporter. Published in the August 3-9, 2000 edition.
- THE BATTLE OF
MILLIKEN'S BEND (CIVIL WAR) - By Earnest McBride (Revised and updated:
July 21, 2000)
- LETTER -
From Brevet Major General John B. Sanborn, Commissioner, to the Honorable
James Harlan, U. S. Secretary of the Interior - Headquarters.
Commission for regulating relations between Freedmen in the Indian
Territory and their former masters. Fort Smith, Arkansas. January 5, 1866
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CAMP WILLIAM PENN'S BLACK SOLDIERS IN BLUE
- SERGEANT
JOHN WARD'S MEXICAN CAVALRY SABER
- THE MARGARET
GARNER ARCHEOLOGICAL PROJECT
- THE
"OL' AUCTION BLOCK" IN LURAY, VIRGINIA
- AFRICAN
AMERICANS IN EARLY RADIO
- BLACK
MARITIME HISTORY RUNS DEEP
- THE AD WHITE
SLAVE-RESCUE CASE
- BOY SCOUT
EAGLE PROJECT - WESTLAWN CEMETERY, DEL RIO, TEXAS
- BLACK
COUNCILMAN KENNETH STOKES CALLED "BOY" DURING HEATED EXCHANGE - The
mixture of whites and one Black Confederate wannabes taunted Black Ward 3
City councilman Kenneth Stokes at his place of employment - Jackson's City
Hall.
- LIGHT OF
ATHENS - The Trinity community will never forget the Christmas season
of 1941....
- THE BLACK
BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI - Civil War
- A DREAM OF
WINGS - Black female pilot Mildred Carter was frustrated in her effort
to serve in the skies, but, in Tuskegee, she's counted among the famed
Airmen - By Jeff Hardy - Mobile, Alabama Register - Washington Bureau
- BLACK OKLAHOMA TODAY
- Oklahoma's Premier African American Internet Site
- RACE - WE'RE
ONLY NOW REPAYING A DEBT - Despite injustices blacks soldiered on
- WHERE ARE THE
RANDOLPHS: A SURNAMING QUESTION - Presentation by Art Thomas at the
University of Dayton, April 10, 1999
- EXHIBIT -
FROM AFRICA TO ETERNITY - Denise White Fields, Curator -- Over 3,000
authentic artifacts and documents related to the slave era,
reconstruction, the military, civil rights, the Black Church,
music/entertainment, sports, as well as figural images, pictorial images,
literary collectibles, advertisements, money, stamps, banks, toys, dolls,
folk art and various miscellaneous items.
- THE RED TAIL
MUSTANG RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION PROJECT - An effort of the
Confederate Air Force and Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
- REPORT -
THIRD ANNUAL OHIO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SUMMIT - Sandusky, Ohio
- CAROLINA -
GEORGIA LOWCOUNTRY - History, Culture, Special Projects and Currents
Events
-
LOOKING FOR GHOSTS OF SLAVE'S PAST - Archaeologists search Boone Co.
farm for clues (Margaret Garner)
- PREJUDICE
AND SLAVERY IN THE CHURCH - Newspaper Articles 1838-1839
THE
FIFTH ESTATE - Stagville Plantation Keeps Slave History Alive so We Do
Not Relive It
- THE BLACK WATCH
OF TEXAS - By Mary Louise Thompson, "San Antonio Express" November 16,
1924 - Almost forgotten, These Seminole Negro Indian Scouts Are Living in
Peace on the Border, But They Had Their Day in Shaping History for Texas.
- THE MARGARET
GARNER PROJECT - Home of Margaret Garner has been discovered
-
CHRISTINE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY/CIVIL WAR WEBSITES
- HELP SAVE THE HOLT HOUSE
- Built in the early 1800's the Holt House is on the National Register of
Historic Places and is Federally protected.
- A
LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN - A Professor confronts the Southern League
- ALABAMA AFRICAN
AMERICAN GENEALOGY - Web Site By
Sandra Johnson
- CHARLIE
MONTGOMERY, 88, COLORED PREACHER, DIES - Article published in the
Mobile (Alabama) Register - March 26, 1948.
- C. ALFRED
"CHIEF" ANDERSON - The Most Famous Black Aviator in America - By John
Sherrer, Editor, Pride Magazine - November 1976
- SLAVE
NARRATIVE AND OBITUARY OF MRS. SARAH FRANCIS (WOOD) BURKE (1843-1940)
- James Immel, Reporter . Edited by
Henry Robert Burke - August 1, 1998
- WAR AFTERMATH
DEPOSE - Poetic Commentaries by
Tyrone Dancy, Decorated
Vietnam War Veteran
- DEAR FELLOW
WEST VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE MEMBERS. From
James A. Manning, Class of '53
- HISTORY OF
MILAN COUNTY, TEXAS - War Dead is Being Written
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- BORN
IN SLAVERY - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and
500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941
as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the
United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
- LINCOLN
CEMETERY, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - This historic African-American
Cemetery has been in existence since 1867. It was originally called the
Goodwill Cemetery. Saint Paul’s A.M.E. Zion Church Minute Books:1840-1895
records the founders of this cemetery as the Sons of Goodwill.
- MILITARY
RECORDS - A list of web sites with information and forms needed to
obtain personnel records.
- DOUGLASS
INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT - The Douglass Institute of Government (DIG)
is an educational " think tank " dedicated to research and policy studies
on African - American culture, history, and relevant contemporary issues
in support of Frederick Douglass' admonition to a young student: "Agitate,
agitate, agitate".
- ANTHONY POWELL'S
PORTRAITS IN BLACK BUFFALO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WEB SITE - This Web
Site is gratefully dedicated to the memory of black men and women who have
served in the United States Armed Forces and defended freedom and
democracy. They fought and served on the far-flung battlefields of Europe
and Asia, and on American soil. Though they were distrusted, feared, and
even hated, they never lost their faith in themselves or their country.
- BLACK CAMISARDS -
African-American Civil War Art, Books and Collectibles
- THE SLAVE
REVOLT ON BOARD THE AMERICAN BRIG CREOLE - The Creole Research Center
is researching and detailing the unprecedented slave revolt on board the
Brig Creole, in 1841. We are developing a data base of all crew members,
owners, and slaves held on board (including their ancestry and
descendants) as well as details on their ports of call, Richmond, Hampton
Roads, and Norfolk, Virginia; Nassau, N.P.; Kingston, Jamaica; and New
Orleans, LA.
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WITHOUT SANCTUARY - Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
-
RECORDS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS - Series A:
Holdings of the Chicago Historical Society and the Newberry Library,
1925-1969 - Part 3: Records of the BSCP Relations with the Pullman
Company, 1925-1968
- J. MARION
SIMS ("The Father of Gynecology.") - One Among Many Monumental
Mistakes - By Wendy Brinker
- THE BLACK
MEMORIAL DAY TRADITION IN VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI or How the Black
People of a Civil War Town Got Stuck with the Responsibility of
Celebrating Important National Holidays and How the Current Generation is
Shunning that Responsibility - By Earnest McBride, Freelance Journalist
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WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL - WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OHIO
-
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN TO BE FOCUS OF LECTURE
- THE WILD WEST
OF THE SEMINOLE NEGRO INDIAN SCOUTS
- BOOK - BLACK
COWBOYS IN TEXAS
- LIVING
RED-BROWN IN EL NORTE
- ECONOMIC
EMPOWERMENT
- HELP SAVE THE
HOLT HOUSE
- WORLD WAR II
AND THE LATER YEARS - From the column, UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET, by
Jim Rundles, Jackson Advocate Feature Historian - First… What was the
single most outstanding event that happened during the past century? The
answer: World War II.
- BLACK FARMERS AND
AGRICULTURALISTS ASSOCIATION - A grassroots, volunteer organization
created in 1997 in direct response to the staggering decline in African
American farmers and landowners.
- BLACK FAMILIES.com
- Keeping Our Families Whole
-
FREEDOM FIGHTERS - Along the banks of Florida's Loxahatchee River lies
a spot where ghosts live: the sacred spirits of the Seminoles and former
slaves who banded together to fight U.S. treachery.
- BLACK,
BUCKSKIN AND BLUE: African-American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western
Frontier - By Art T. Burton
- PETITION -
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COMMEMORATIVE STAMP
-
BUFFALO SOLDIERS' ASSAULT ON THE GOTHIC LINE - The African-American
92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up
the Italian boot.
- INDIAN
TERRITORY - OKLAHOMA - Lawmen, Outlaws and Farmers
- RESTING
PLACES OF UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN OHIO
- ACADEMIC
INFO - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY - An Annotated Directory of Internet
Resources on Black History
-
THE BLACK
SEMINOLES - By Kenneth W. Porter -- Edited by Alcione M. Amos and
Thomas P Senter
- AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY
HISTORY
- BLACK
EXPERIENCE WORKSHOP - March 18-19, 1999 - University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
- TUSKEGEE
UNIVERSITY POINTS OF DISTINCTION
-
TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS AND FDR TRANSCRIPTS OF CONVERSATIONS - ....Among New
Materials Added to the National Archives Web Site
- CIVIL WAR
REPORT - SKIRMISH AT ISLAND MOUND, MISSOURI. - OCTOBER 29, 1862. --
First engagement by Colored Troops, the First Kansas Colored Infantry
- MOTON FIELD,
TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA - (UPDATED) Tuskegee Airmen Historic Site Approved
by U. S. Senate - Articles from the Tuskegee News, Montgomery Advertiser
and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- BLACK CIVIL
WAR SOLDIERS OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST - Dedicated to the African
Ancestored Union Soldiers who fought in the American Civil War on
American's Western Frontier
- AFRICAN
AMERICAN FARMER 1920-1932 - PART I - Parts II and III will be posted
soon
- CAMP SIBERT,
ALABAMA - A Riot at Chemical Warfare Training Center in 1944
-
LIFE'S WORK ROOTED IN FAMILY TREE - Baltimore Woman (Agnes Kane Callum)
Tells the Stories of Maryland's Slaves
- 'WHITE,''MIXED'
OR' OTHER?' - Annotated Bibliography by A. D. Powell
- PETER BRUNER,
12TH USCHA AND RICHARD BURNS, 9TH USCHA - Civil War Soldiers -
Submitted by A. Bradley McClain
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY - The Lawrence Register - Genealogical and
Historical Website for Lawrence County, Ohio
- MEMORIAL TO
BLACK SOLDIERS MARKING TIME DESPITE JULY DEDICATION - Visitors Are
Kept Away While Contractors Continue Work - By Linda Wheeler, Washington
Post Staff Writer
-
MOVIE
SHOWS MILITARY'S BIAS - By Lawrene Trump - Cox News Service
- "THROUGH
THESE EYES" The Photographs of P. H. Polk (Tuskegee University). From
E. DuBose-Bozeman
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